[osis-core] osis_0108.3 Making milestone OSISID and OSISIDREF match. OPTION G and H

[Patrick Durusau]

Todd,

Todd Tillinghast wrote:

>I'm not a fan of having multiple referenceTypes in a single OSISID.
>
>How about OPTION G:
>This preserves OSISID as an xs:ID and still provides a way without making
>the verseStart milestone into a non milestone form.
>
And the reasoning for preserving OSISID as an xs:ID? That is the part 
that I am missing.

I don't see any reason to keep trying to put ranges on OSISIDS, whether 
they are xs:ID or xs:NMTOKENS. Ranges are difficult to validate, 
particularly when moving across reference systems and I don't see ranges 
as buying us anything for the current release.

Lets start with the assumption that ranges are not going appear in OSIS. 
Whatever attribute, value, type, etc. IF you want ranges, the reason we 
used NMTOKENS, fine, specify each verse reference for the limited number 
of cases where that happens. Then even stupid software that does not 
understand range syntax (unlike your software) can put the user out 
close to the right place.

Note that your syntax is far more verbose that than that I suggested and 
it does not gain you anything other than having the ability to say TEV 
represents a foreign reference system as a range. Of what value is that?

Patrick

>
><verseStart OSISID="Bible.TEV..Gen.20.17-18"
>OSISIDREFS="Bible.TEV..Gen.20.17 Bible.TEV..Gen.20.18"/>
><verseStart OSISID="Bible.TEV..Gen.17" OSISIDREF="Bible.TEV..Gen.20.17-18"/>
><verseStart OSISID="Bible.TEV..Gen.18" OSISIDREF="Bible.TEV..Gen.20.17-18"/>
>Because of what had happened to Sarah, Abraham's wife, the <divineName
>type="yhwh">LORD</divineName> had
>made it impossible for any woman in abimelech's palace to have children. So
>Abraham prayed for Abimelech, and God healed him. He also healed his wife
>and his slave women, so that they could have children.
><verseEnd OSISIDREF="Bible.TEV..Gen.18"/>
><verseEnd OSISIDREF="Bible.TEV..Gen.17"/>
><verseEnd OSISIDREF="Bible.TEV..Gen.20.17-18"/>
>
>OR OPTION H:
>This preserves OSISID as an xs:ID and still provides a way without making
>the verseStart milestone into a non milestone form. (commonRefs is an list
>of refereneceTypes).
><verseStart OSISID="Bible.TEV..Gen.20.17-18"
>commonRefs="Bible.Prot..Gen.20.17 Bible.Prot..Gen.20.18"/>
>Because of what had happened to Sarah, Abraham's wife, the <divineName
>type="yhwh">LORD</divineName> had
>made it impossible for any woman in abimelech's palace to have children. So
>Abraham prayed for Abimelech, and God healed him. He also healed his wife
>and his slave women, so that they could have children.
><verseEnd OSISIDREF="Bible.TEV..Gen.20.17-18"/>
>
>Todd
>

-- 
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu